Countdown to the end of Democracy in the UK on 13:16 - Oct 15 by Lohengrin

Every weekday ten ‘til one playing catchphrase for the achingly woke.

I do listen in quite often as it’s pretty entertaining in between the prolonged bouts of virtue signalling. He’s not too bad at all if you can get past the fact that he’s sat there with his glasses on top of his head and wearing a scarf nonchalantly slung while indoors like some middle-aged tutor at the LSE desperately trying to look hip for his female students.

Can't stand the bloke despite him being on the 'right' side. If only he'd let people finish a sentence.

Anyhow, being reported that an Irish Sea customs border is being agreed in principle. The DUP are going to go apesh*t. Can't see this getting through parliament, but you never know I suppose.

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Countdown to the end of Democracy in the UK on 16:31 - Oct 15 with 994 views

Countdown to the end of Democracy in the UK on 16:31 - Oct 15 by Lohengrin

” When I was teaching maths, I used to say "it's just as easy to get it right as get it wrong, so let's get it right, shall we?"

“What kind of madman would even think of trying to fill a bath tub full of holes? Nonsense it is.”

Mrs Beth Morgan, 1941. Courtesy of How Green Was My Valley.

Don't know the quote, Loh, haven't read the book, I think I was put off by the Hollywood film version which appeared to my young eyes to be an establishment arse-kissing exercise ("us miners are all out on strike starving to death but we're all going starry eyed and bendy kneed because the king/queen has ordered our choir to come and give a concert at Buck House! What an honour for Welsh toe rags like us, yer Majesty etc, etc").

However, I imagine the character in question is quoting a maths problem along the lines of "if a 10 gallon bathtub with holes in it is being filled up at 1 gallon a minute and meanwhile the water is leaking out blah, blah, blah".

Yes, good point. I tried to make lessons a tad more relevant to the real world. You know, "if Jacob Rees Mogg is salting 95% of his £3 million annual income away in tbe Cayman Islands in order to avoid tax etc etc...."

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Countdown to the end of Democracy in the UK on 17:00 - Oct 15 with 945 views

Media reporting Boris on the verge of agreeing a deal and getting a parliamentary majority for it by the simple expedient of re-naming the backstop. It is now called "this is absolutely not the backstop, no, no way not in any shape or form (OK, it is really)".

If only Teresa May had known how simple it was, eh?

[Post edited 15 Oct 2019 17:02]

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Countdown to the end of Democracy in the UK on 17:21 - Oct 15 with 917 views

No not in the slightest biased. "For instance, of 4,275 guests talking about the EU on BBC Radio 4’s flagship Today programme between 2005 and 2015, only 132 (3.2 per cent) were supporters of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU."

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All roads lead to Tufton Street don’t they... What a surprise a ‘housemate’ of ‘vote leave’ thinks the BBC is biased against leaving.

That’s is the most incredibly disingenuous statistic by the way.

Boris Johnson would be classed as pro EU for all that period. Just as one example.

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Countdown to the end of Democracy in the UK on 17:23 - Oct 15 with 915 views

Countdown to the end of Democracy in the UK on 17:00 - Oct 15 by Pegojack

Media reporting Boris on the verge of agreeing a deal and getting a parliamentary majority for it by the simple expedient of re-naming the backstop. It is now called "this is absolutely not the backstop, no, no way not in any shape or form (OK, it is really)".

If only Teresa May had known how simple it was, eh?

[Post edited 15 Oct 2019 17:02]

It’s not even the May deal. It’s a deal May rejected as ‘not acceptable to any Conservative Prime Minister’.

Who’d have thought...

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Countdown to the end of Democracy in the UK on 17:31 - Oct 15 with 905 views

Countdown to the end of Democracy in the UK on 16:51 - Oct 15 by Pegojack

Don't know the quote, Loh, haven't read the book, I think I was put off by the Hollywood film version which appeared to my young eyes to be an establishment arse-kissing exercise ("us miners are all out on strike starving to death but we're all going starry eyed and bendy kneed because the king/queen has ordered our choir to come and give a concert at Buck House! What an honour for Welsh toe rags like us, yer Majesty etc, etc").

However, I imagine the character in question is quoting a maths problem along the lines of "if a 10 gallon bathtub with holes in it is being filled up at 1 gallon a minute and meanwhile the water is leaking out blah, blah, blah".

Yes, good point. I tried to make lessons a tad more relevant to the real world. You know, "if Jacob Rees Mogg is salting 95% of his £3 million annual income away in tbe Cayman Islands in order to avoid tax etc etc...."

There's a few on here who would argue it takes 9 women one month to have one baby.

Countdown to the end of Democracy in the UK on 16:51 - Oct 15 by Pegojack

Don't know the quote, Loh, haven't read the book, I think I was put off by the Hollywood film version which appeared to my young eyes to be an establishment arse-kissing exercise ("us miners are all out on strike starving to death but we're all going starry eyed and bendy kneed because the king/queen has ordered our choir to come and give a concert at Buck House! What an honour for Welsh toe rags like us, yer Majesty etc, etc").

However, I imagine the character in question is quoting a maths problem along the lines of "if a 10 gallon bathtub with holes in it is being filled up at 1 gallon a minute and meanwhile the water is leaking out blah, blah, blah".

Yes, good point. I tried to make lessons a tad more relevant to the real world. You know, "if Jacob Rees Mogg is salting 95% of his £3 million annual income away in tbe Cayman Islands in order to avoid tax etc etc...."

Countdown to the end of Democracy in the UK on 17:00 - Oct 15 by Pegojack

Media reporting Boris on the verge of agreeing a deal and getting a parliamentary majority for it by the simple expedient of re-naming the backstop. It is now called "this is absolutely not the backstop, no, no way not in any shape or form (OK, it is really)".

If only Teresa May had known how simple it was, eh?

[Post edited 15 Oct 2019 17:02]

Has anyone revealed the details or is it rampant speculation?

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Countdown to the end of Democracy in the UK on 19:20 - Oct 15 with 808 views

It’s gonna be hilarious watching everyone hail this agreement (if it transpires) as a triumph. Y’know, the same people who called it a betrayal when May negotiated it. And if the reports are right, this one is worse in NI terms.

Countdown to the end of Democracy in the UK on 19:58 - Oct 15 by exiledclaseboy

It’s gonna be hilarious watching everyone hail this agreement (if it transpires) as a triumph. Y’know, the same people who called it a betrayal when May negotiated it. And if the reports are right, this one is worse in NI terms.

I wonder who wrote in the Telegraph about a year ago that EU proposals to have a customs border in the Irish sea were "little short of an attempt to annex Northern Ireland".

Surely not...

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Countdown to the end of Democracy in the UK on 20:09 - Oct 15 with 739 views

Countdown to the end of Democracy in the UK on 20:03 - Oct 15 by Flashberryjack

Doesn't matter what the Boris deal is, the staunch remainers won't like it, there's only one outcome that will satisfy them.

I am sure that the staunch Remainers won’t like it, but those who are happy to leave with a tidy deal may well be. If it’s the same deal or almost identical to the deal that Parliament and the Brexiteers rejected when May proposed it would certainly say a lot about their integrity and values. This is about the unity of the Conservative Party.

I have always thought the only sensible solution was a border in the Irish Sea, but I am not from NI. If I were DUP voter, given all that’s happened I would be furious, if I were of the Sinn Fein persuasion I would probably be rather pleased.

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Countdown to the end of Democracy in the UK on 20:23 - Oct 15 with 711 views

Countdown to the end of Democracy in the UK on 19:58 - Oct 15 by exiledclaseboy

It’s gonna be hilarious watching everyone hail this agreement (if it transpires) as a triumph. Y’know, the same people who called it a betrayal when May negotiated it. And if the reports are right, this one is worse in NI terms.

So does this mean we still have to suffer as a result of "the will of the people"

Countdown to the end of Democracy in the UK on 20:50 - Oct 15 by londonlisa2001

What do you mean?

You keep telling us you know what you voted for. Why are you asking for the details?

What the hell has what brexiters voted for got to do with any deal agreed by our crap Tory government? I did not vote for a deal I voted for revoking our EU membership. What deal or deals happened after that would be acceptable as long as it did not involve being tied to the EU.

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Countdown to the end of Democracy in the UK on 20:58 - Oct 15 with 653 views